Hydrocarbon-burner.



H. F. RICHTER.

HYDROCARBON BURNER.

APPLICATION FILED 0.2mm. x911.

Patented Feb. 4, 1919.

WITNESSES} A TTORNE Y bod AN F. RICHTER, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

HYDBOCARBON-B URNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 4, 1919.

Application filed December 31, 1917. Serial No. 209,754.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN F. RICHTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Hydrocarbon-Burner, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to burners for liquid fuels and has for its main object to completely vaporize and burn oils without a continuously burning heater.

Another object is to heat and vaporize the fuelwhen the burner is burning low as well as when a bright flame and intense heat is produced by the burner.

Another object is to provide a retort leading to the burner which can be moved into a position in relation to the burner to assure the right heating for fuel passing through the retort to the burner.

nother object is to provide a burner which can easily be cleaned while in operation by a suitable orifice cleaner disposed near the orifice of such burner.

Another object is to provide a burner which will resist the oxidizing process usually occurring in such hydrocarbon burners.

Other objects will appear from the following description and appended claims as well as from the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is an end elevation of the device.

Fig. 2 is a detail grate member in end elevation.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 isa fragmentary sectional viewof the grate member having a non-oxodozing insertion.

Similar numbers refer to throughout the several views.

In Fig. 3, 5 designates the front-end plate, 6 the rear-end plate, 7 the several grate or y members, and 8 the bolts by which the whole is held together. The front-end plate is provided with a sleeve extension 9 into which the burner is disposed. The burner consists mainly of the spider 10, the body part 11, and the fuel supply conduit pipe 12. The body part 11 is provided with the jet opening 13 and the fuel overflowing chamber 14, the chamber being of proportionally larger bore than the jet opening so as to form the valve seat 15. The fuel supply pipe 12 is provided with the conduit 16 havsectional view on similar parts the valve 19 engaging with the valve seat 15.

of the body part 11, so that a turnin of the supply pipe may cause a disengaging of the valve 19 from the valve seat, or a closing of the jet opening or orifice 13. he cap 21 is provided to insure an'airt connection between the supply pipe and the body 11, while the supply pipe is loosely turnable within the bodypart 11. For cleanin the orifice 13, the orifice cleaner 22 is shifta ly mounted in the bore 23 in the spider 10 having a suitable hook end 24 formed so as to pass into and through the orifice 13 when so shifted.

The rear-end plate 6 is provided with a boss 25 upon which the arm 26 is swingably mounted for holding the end 27 of the supply pipe at about the same distance from the burner as the bent end of the supply pipe is made to come to cause a suitable heating of the fuel oil when passing through the supply along the side of the burner before entering the burner. The set screw 28 is provided for setting the supply pipe at a different angle in relation to the burner when so desired or required, the position indicated at 29 being suitable for the case and the time when the burner is burning with full force causing the flame to discharge out Each of the several grate or body memhers is provided with a suitable number of recesses 33 formin the discharge openings for the gas out of t e burner, by placing the smooth side of one grate or body member against the recessed side of the next grate or body member as illustrated in Fig. 3. The lips 34 form the air and fuel mixing chamber 35 and the vaporizing chambers 36 when placing a number of the grate or body members together, as will be understood from the illustrations in Figs. 2 and 3.

Q memos To prevent the oxidizing of the surface charging openings when the several bodyof the burner, I prefer to provide the surmembers are placed side by side with their face of the .burner with suitable recesses 37 flat sides, one of the triangular sides having and insert a non-oxidizing burner plate 38, no recesses forming the closed base when made of suitable material as clay, glass, or the several members are so placed together other similar substances for this purpose for aburner of suitable length. while the rest of the burner may be of gray 4. In 'a burner of the class described a iron or other cheap and suitable material. suitable number of grate members having a For starting this burner and heating the suitable number of gas discharging opensupply pipe before the burner is burning, ings, and a supply pipe disposed so as to a trough 39 is provided below the supply pass the discharge openings in the grate ipe along the slde of the burner, as 1llus members leading into the burner having a trated in Fig. 1. threaded end near the entrance in the burner Having thus described my invention, I engaging with the burner so as to close up claim: the conduit through the supply pipe when 1. In a burner of the class described a tightly screwed into the burner, the shutting swingably mounted supply pipe havlng off of the supply pipe being arranged so as means for controlling the fuel supply by the to bring the supply pipe where it passes the swinging movement of the supply pipe gas discharge openings in the grate memadapted for suitable retorting when the bers more up to the upper discharge openburner is burning with full force as well as ings where the gas naturally will discharge when burning low. when the burner is burning low while the 2. In a burner of the class described a same'part of the supply pipe will be farther suitable number of body members having a down near the lower discharge openings suitable number of recesses extending from when the burner is burning wlth full force the center toward the edges forming the gas as the gas will then still pass around the discharging openings when the several bodysupply pipe in such low position. members are placed side by side, one side 5. In a burner of the class described a or edge of the body members having no resuitable number of grate members having cesses forming the closed base when the seva suitable number of gas discharging openeral body-members are placed side by side, ings, a fuel supply pipe swingably mountthe sides with the discharging openings ed along one side of the burner before when the several recessed body members are the gas discharge openings and terminating so placed side by side forming other recesses with the orifice in the burner, and an orifice along the whole sides, and a suitable numcleaner disposed. near the orifice of the supber of non-oxidizing grate-members disply pipe having an end suitably formed so posed in the last named recesses of the body as to slip into and through the orifice in the members when held together forming the supply p pe when so operated.

burning surface, all substantially as de- In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my scribetd. b f h 1 d d signature in the presence of two witnesses;

3. n a urner o t e cass escribe a suitable number of triangular body-mem- HERMAN RICHTER bers having a suitable number of recesses in Witnesses: one of the fiat sides extending from the E. A. Mouser,

center toward the edges forming the gas FLORENCE E. LEA. 

